Supply and demand. Maybe these folks really don't want to lease unless the price makes it really worth their while. On that second one. Its in between San Antonio and Austin I could easily see someone pay that for it. I don't take fancy vacations but many do and they spend well over $5k. That price all things considered really is not that bad to be able to have a place to hunt and fish year round. Way cheaper than land ownership. Heck land in that area is $4k per acre. At current market prices that 60 acre place is worth over a a quarter of a million dollars. Someone would be either foolish or naive to think they could lease it for 10-20 dollars an acre.

Supply and demand. Maybe these folks really don't want to lease unless the price makes it really worth their while. On that second one. Its in between San Antonio and Austin I could easily see someone pay that for it. I don't take fancy vacations but many do and they spend well over $5k. That price all things considered really is not that bad to be able to have a place to hunt and fish year round. Way cheaper than land ownership. Heck land in that area is $4k per acre. At current market prices that 60 acre place is worth over a a quarter of a million dollars. Someone would be either foolish or naive to think they could lease it for 10-20 dollars an acre.

show me where you can find $4000 an acre land between San Antonio and Austin??? might be lucky to find anything in the $14000 range if not much higher. Land around Austin is stupid expensive, at least west of IH35!

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These leases (even on THF) scare me. I don't know if I'll ever be to the point of where I can spend 2 hours driving out to the lease every two weeks to fill feeders, conduct maintenance, have a buddy to go with with me, and then (after all that) risk being out of town for work during most of the hunting season.

Supply and demand. Maybe these folks really don't want to lease unless the price makes it really worth their while. On that second one. Its in between San Antonio and Austin I could easily see someone pay that for it. I don't take fancy vacations but many do and they spend well over $5k. That price all things considered really is not that bad to be able to have a place to hunt and fish year round. Way cheaper than land ownership. Heck land in that area is $4k per acre. At current market prices that 60 acre place is worth over a a quarter of a million dollars. Someone would be either foolish or naive to think they could lease it for 10-20 dollars an acre.

show me where you can find $4000 an acre land between San Antonio and Austin??? might be lucky to find anything in the $14000 range if not much higher. Land around Austin is stupid expensive, at least west of IH35!

Caldwell county course its East of I35. My apologies its like 4300-5000 in that area.

So what will be the short and long term of impact of the upward trend in lease prices when it results in placing more hunters on the property than the land can support - in order for the landowners to get their money?

I'm in the minority who refuse to defend landowners for getting all they can when they lease to more hunters than their deer population can support.

These leases (even on THF) scare me. I don't know if I'll ever be to the point of where I can spend 2 hours driving out to the lease every two weeks to fill feeders, conduct maintenance, have a buddy to go with with me, and then (after all that) risk being out of town for work during most of the hunting season.

That first landowner or whoever is running the ad has never leased it before. They mention they checked around and that is the price. I guess they forgot about checking the size of most leases before setting the price. Everyone I know plus me who leases pays about $9 to $12 an acre.